Energy and Commerce Committee
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Don’t look now, but the House just woke up to the cost of climate inaction
A climate-focused House committee returns from dead, awakens to staggering costs of inaction.
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Solyndra birtherism: GOP demands Obama’s BlackBerry, gives Big Oil CEOs a pass
Watch out — they’re coming for your BlackBerry.Photo: White HouseFor two months, Republicans have been searching for some evidence that political favoritism played a role in the Obama administration’s loan guarantee to Solyndra. They have failed. After a half-dozen hearings, testimony from virtually everyone involved, and the release of thousands of pages of emails and […]
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Drilling down on oil
It may be true, but domestic oil drilling won’t help.This post originally appeared on the Great Energy Challenge blog, in partnership with National Geographic and Planet Forward. It’s an unfortunate fact that stress has a way of making people crazy. At the moment, rising oil prices are creating a lot of stress. One of the […]
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House Republicans battle over committees, reinforce orthodoxy
The internecine warfare among House Republicans is a remarkable illustration of party discipline -- and how only one side knows how to do it.
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Upton takes right-wing beatdown for incandescent bulb ban
When Republican choose the head of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, the decision may come down to light bulbs. That's right, light bulbs.
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A useful summary of Waxman-Markey
The Energy and Commerce Committee finally released a summary (here) of the American Clean Energy and Security Act as reported by the Committee on May 21 by a vote of 33 to 25. Here are the key provisions: Require electric utilities to meet 20% of their electricity demand through renewable energy sources and energy efficiency […]
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Understanding offsets
As the struggle to pass the Waxman-Markey climate-energy bill showed, there is a certain price any political system is willing to bear for climate action. In China, that price is low. In the United States, it is medium. And in Europe, it is relatively high. But in every system, there exist two primary ways to […]